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...mayor whose moderate leanings led some party stalwarts to brand him a RINO (Republican in Name Only), ran a dismal race, blowing a 40-point lead. His untested opponent, millionaire businessman Bill Simon Jr., got an endorsement from 9/11 hero Rudy Giuliani and proved both surefooted and in tune with the conservative voters who dominate the primary. Then Davis did some meddling of his own, spending $10 million on attack ads against Riordan. But the White House failed to anticipate those factors, which explains why Presidents, like parents, usually avoid taking sides in family fights...
Gosh, this feels good. Almost inexplicably, an economy that looked rotten two weeks ago has suddenly turned super. Construction, factories, services, retailing--you name the tune and it's got an upbeat tempo. The latest twist came Friday, when the Labor Department reported net job creation for the first time in seven months and a drop in the unemployment rate to 5.5% in February, from 5.6% the month before. Normally, unemployment continues to drift higher for a few months after a recovery starts. This could be the beginning of one of the quickest job rebounds ever...
...judges and audience both shook with laughter during Adams’ baton-twirling routine to the tune of “It’s Raining Men.” Adams dropped his batons midway through but shrugged and went on dancing—and the audience went on laughing even harder...
Great Big Sea’s signature live song is “Mary Mac,” a traditional tune that the band has practically made their own. Their performance of the staple at Avalon made clear why this is so. The song started out slowly, practically inaudible over the roars of an adoring, drunken crowd. As the song picked up, both the crowd and the band began to get more and more frenzied, repeating the tongue-twisting chorus “Mary Mac’s mother’s making Mary Mac marry me/ My mother?...
...young women pass the time by chatting about their current music favorites. “Have you heard Rachael Davis? You’ve got to check her out,” says one of them. She then steps over the guitar and begins to tune it, at which point it occurs to the uninitiated that it is her picture plastered across the walls of the store...